Original Sin

Chapter 7

As Caroline woke up she automatically stretch her hand to reach out for Klaus. Finding the other side of the bed empty, she inclined a bit resting her upper body on her elbows as she looked around the room. There she saw Klaus staring over contents of a box with a solemn expression on his face. Caroline made her way out of bed to walk to Klaus' side and sit beside him, "Good Morning," she kissed him in the cheek.

Klaus put his arm around Caroline and kissed her temple, "Good Morning love."

Curious, Caroline asked, "what are you looking at?"

Klaus exhaled and went on to touch a wood carving, "it's a toy soldier I carved when I was human, one of the few possessions I have cherished. I had Rebekah hold on to this when we were little. I remember one night in particular, in the middle of a storm when Bekah couldn't sleep, she was afraid of the storm. I tried to comfort her by letting her hold on to this very thing," referring to the carving.

Caroline entwined her hand with his, the one not holding on to the carving, "do you miss her?"

Klaus smiled sadly while looking at their entwined hand, "I miss all my siblings. Even if it seemed that I don't. They were still my family, all I really had. But, I always missed my sister most of all..Bekah and I, we always shared a special bond together."

Caroline leaned into Klaus, her head on his shoulder, "when she left, it was the hardest thing for her to do. But she knew both of you needed the time away, she will be back, and you will be closer than ever, you'll see."

Klaus looked at Caroline, "I really don't deserve you," squeezing her hand.

Caroline placed her other hand on his cheek, "you're wrong, you can be wrong sometimes, this is one of those times. You deserve me, if you want me." Caroline leaned in to give Klaus a short but sweet kiss, "I care about you."

Klaus and Elijah had gone out earlier to take care of some supernatural business as they called it. That left Caroline and Davina together inside the Mansion. Klaus however informed her that he had a few of the daywalkers guarding the courtyard and entrances.

So she and Davina where in the kitchen, like two normal girls, except they were not normal and the conversation they were having was anything but typical. She was finishing up her cooking her pasta, it was a wonder the kitchen was always fully stocked when none of them actually took the time out to shop or do grocery shopping. She had politely transferred the contents of a bloodbag into a glass. She was now drinking her fill of blood as Davina looked on.

"You drink from blood bags? Marcel told me all vampires prefer to drink from the vein." Davina asked Caroline.

"That's true, most vampires do. But, I'm not really most vampires. I prefer not to kill human or drink from them cause I don't want to compel them, I know it's not enjoyable to be used as a blood bag," smiling at Davina as she finished.

"You know, I could never imagine you and Klaus together. You're just the last person I think would be with someone like him," Davina told her honestly.

As Caroline transferred the pasta to a serving bowl for them to eat for lunch she spoke, "I will tell you a secret, we are not so different, we both do the things we do for family, for friends. He has just been around longer than the rest of us, so he had more to deal with. At the end of the day, we are just creatures, sometimes our control gets the better of us."

Davina nodded like she understood, "control, that I know about. I lost control so many times."

As they were having lunch Caroline continued to share with Davina, "you know one of my best friends is a witch, well was a witch. A Bennett witch actually, they say one of the strongest and oldest lines."